Joseph Jones papers, 1820-1900 | Louisiana Research Collection
By Eira Tansey
Collection Overview
Title: Joseph Jones papers, 1820-1900
Predominant Dates:1849-1900
ID: LaRC/Manuscripts Collection 172
Primary Creator: Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Extent: 56.0 Boxes. More info below.
Arrangement: The collection is arranged chronologically by topic. It consists of 38 manuscripts boxes, 79 bound manuscripts volumes, and 8 oversized folders. There are additional printed pamphlets and monographs in the collection representing the work and life of Joseph Jones. For access to printed material, please contact a LaRC staff member. The collection is 45 linear feet.
Date Acquired: 06/00/1966
Subjects: Andersonville Prison., Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Medical care., Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896., Jones family., Medical education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans., Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century., Tulane University. School of Medicine., United Confederate Veterans., United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate., United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865., University of Nashville. Medical Dept.
Forms of Material: Articles., Clippings (information artifacts), Correspondence., Lectures., Lists (document genre), Medical records., Muster rolls., Notebooks., Pamphlets., Photographs., Publications., Reports., Rosters.
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Biographical Note
Joseph Jones was born September 6, 1833, the second son of Charles Colcock Jones, Sr., a Presbyterian minister from Liberty County, Georgia. He attended the College of New Jersey at Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Jones began teaching in 1856 at Savannah Medical College, and later at the University of Georgia as well as the Medical College of Georgia. In 1858 he married Caroline Smelt Davis of Augusta, Georgia. Jones served in the Confederate military forces as Surgeon Major throughout most of the war. He conducted studies of the diseases and injuries in Confederate hospitals and prisons, particularly Andersonville. Because of his activities at Andersonville, Jones was summoned as a witness at the trial of Henry Wirz.
After the Civil War, Jones joined the faculty of the University of Nashville Medical School. Two years later, he accepted a position at the University of Louisiana (later Tulane University). His wife died in 1868, and in 1870, he married Susan Raynor Polk, daughter of the Episcopal bishop of Louisiana. Joseph Jones' children were: Mary Cuthbert (from his first marriage), Frances Devereaux, Hamilton Polk, and Laura Maxwell. In 1872 Jones was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry and Clinical Medicine at the University of Louisiana, which he held until 1893 when he resigned due to ill health. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 17, 1896.
Subject/Index Terms
Andersonville Prison.
Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Medical care.
Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Jones family.
Medical education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Medicine -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Tulane University. School of Medicine.
United Confederate Veterans.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
University of Nashville. Medical Dept.
Administrative Information
Repository: Louisiana Research Collection
Alternate Extent Statement: 45 linear feet
Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public. No known restrictions.
Use Restrictions: Physical rights are retained by the Louisiana Research Collection. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
Acquisition Source: Stanhope Bayne-Jones.
Acquisition Method: Gift.
Preferred Citation: Joseph Jones papers, Manuscripts Collection 172, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Finding Aid Revision History: Added subject headings 4/16/2010. Finding aid information entered in Archon by LAC Group in 2011. Revised by LAC Group 9/26/11.
Other Note:
To access the collection's correspondence index, please click on the "Digital Content" link for a PDF copy.
OCLC Number: 567805901
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
[Box 1: Correspondence, 1849 July-1858 February],
[Box 2: Correspondence, 1858 March-1859 July],
[Box 3: Correspondence, 1859 August-1861 June],
[Box 4: Correspondence, 1861 July-1862 November],
[Box 5: Correspondence, 1862 December-1864 August],
[Box 6: Correspondence, 1864 September-1866 April],
[Box 7: Correspondence, 1866 May-December],
[Box 8: Correspondence, 1867 January-1868 May],
[Box 9: Correspondence, 1868 June-October],
[Box 10: Correspondence, 1868 November-December],
[Box 11: Correspondence, 1869-1870],
[Box 12: Correspondence, 1871-1876 May],
[Box 13: Correspondence, 1876 June-1880],
[Box 14: Correspondence, 1881-1889],
[Box 15: Correspondence, 1890],
[Box 16: Correspondence, 1891-1893],
[Box 17: Correspondence, 1894-1895],
[Box 18: Correspondence, 1896-1899],
[Box 19: Correspondence, 1900 and undated],
[Box 20: Civil War military reports and rosters],
[Box 21: Civil War medical reports and rosters],
[Box 22: Civil War medical observations and articles by Joseph Jones and others and scrapbooks],
[Box 23: Civil War Andersonville Prison],
[Box 24: Civil War accounts of battles, armies, et cetera],
[Box 25: Articles by Joseph Jones and others; University of Nashville Medical Department; and Tulane University Medical Department],
[Box 26: Slavery and general medical materials],
[Box 27: United Confederate Veterans (UCV) and other papers],
[Box 28: Printed articles, and other materials about Joseph Jones],
[Box 29: Printed articles written by Joseph Jones],
[Box 30: Printed Civil War military reports],
[Box 31: Printed Civil War personal accounts, reminiscences, and biographical sketches, and Civil War medical material],
[Box 32: Printed Civil war articles and pamphlets, United Confederate Veterans articles and pamphlets],
[Box 33: Printed medical articles and pamphlets; pamphlets pertaining to medical colleges, education, et cetera; issues of medical journals],
[Box 34: Printed non-Joseph Jones, non-medical, and non-Civil War material],
[Box 35: Civil War newspaper clippings],
[Box 36: Newspaper clippings: other],
[Box 37: Other materials: Maps, photographs, and other items],
[Box 38: Printed blank forms],
[Box 39: Bound volumes, volumes 1-6],
[Box 40: Bound volumes, volumes 7-9],
[Box 41: Bound volumes, volumes 10-12],
[Box 42: Bound volumes, volumes 13-17],
[Box 43: Bound volumes, volumes 18, 19, and 21],
[Box 44: Bound volumes, volume 20],
[Box 45: Bound volumes, volumes 22-24],
[Box 46: Bound volumes, volume 25-28],
[Volume 29: General outline of the history of yellow fever / by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Volume 30: Comparative pathology of malarial and yellow fevers / by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Volume 31: Historical essays on yellow fever / by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 46A: Bound volumes, volumes 32A-33],
[Volume 34: Notebook / Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 46B: Bound volumes, volumes 35 and 38],
[Volume 36: Essays on components of the universe, state of the solar system, conservation of force, origin of life, relations of muscular and nervous forces, observations on albinism in the Negro / compiled by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 47: Bound volumes, volumes 37, 39 and 40],
[Box 47A: Bound volumes, volumes 41-43],
[Box 48: Bound volumes, volumes 44-46],
[Volume 47: Reports on typhoid fever in the Confederate States Army / compiled by Joseph Jones, circa 1860-1863],
[Box 49: Bound volumes, volumes 48-49],
[[information restricted]],
[Box 50: Bound volumes, volumes 51 and 53],
[Volume 52: Investigations of diseases / compiled by Joseph Jones, 1891],
[Box 50A: Bound volumes, volume 54 and 60],
[Volume 55: Investigations upon the nature, causes, and treatment of hospital gangrene as it prevailed in the Confederate Armies / compiled by Joseph Jones, 1861-1865],
[Box 51: Bound volumes, volumes 56-59],
[Volume 61: Investigations on the geographical distribution, causes, nature, relations, and treatment of various diseases, 1855-1875 / by Joseph Jones, Volume II, undated],
[Box 52: Bound volumes, volumes 62, 64-65],
[Volume 63: Investigations and explorations among the military, monumental and organic remains of the ancient [Chaovanons] / by Joseph Jones, 1873],
[Box 53: Bound volumes, volumes 66-68],
[Volume 69: Other clippings / collected by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 54: Bound volumes, volumes 70-71],
[Box 55: Bound volumes, volumes 72-73],
[Box 56: Bound volumes, volumes 74-77 and 79],
[Volume 78: Birds / Spencer F. Baird, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1858],
[Oversize folder 1: Diploma],
[Oversize folder 2: Medical and Surgical Memoirs manuscript notes],
[Oversize folder 3: "The conduct of the enemy"],
[Oversize folder 4: Meningitis reports],
[Oversize folder 5: Poisons on the Nervous System],
[Oversize folder 6: Observations upon the causes],
[Oversize folder 7: Experiment illustrations],
[Oversize folder 8: Clippings],
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- Box 31: Printed Civil War personal accounts, reminiscences, and biographical sketches, and Civil War medical material
- Folder 1: "Sketch of Governor Allen of Louisiana", undated
- Covers 1864-1865.
- Folder 2: Other articles on General Beauregard, undated
- Covers 1861-1865.
- Folder 3: "Sketches of the Campaign of 1864. Walker's Division - Retreat Up Red River - Battle of Mansfield" / Colonel T.R. Bonner, The Land We Love, Volume V, Number 6, 1868 October
- Folder 4: The Battle of Allatoona, October 5, 1864 / John M. Brown, Atlanta, Georgia, 1890
- Folder 5: "Southern Genius. How War Developed it in an Industrial and Military Way" / General M.C. Butler, Southern Historical Society Papers, 1888
- Folder 6: Personal Reminiscences of the "Last Days of Lee and His Paladins" / Major John Herbert Claiborne, Petersburg, Virginia, 1890
- Covers 1861-1865.
- Folder 7: "Andersonville and Other War-Prisons" / Jefferson Davis, Belford's Magazine, Volume IV, Number 20, 1890 January
- Covers 1864-1865.
- Folder 8: Chronological Summary of Battles...of the Western Armies / Edwin L. Drake, Nashville, 1879
Fragment.
Covers 1863-1864.
- Folder 9: "The Advance upon Washington in July, 1864" / General Jubal A. Early, undated
- Folder 10: "Popular Errors in the Battles of the War" / General Jubal A. Early, The Land We Love, Volume VI, Number 4, 1869 February
- Covers 1861-1865.
- Folder 11: The Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee. An Address...Before Washington and Lee University / General Jubal A. Early, Baltimore, 1872
- Covers 1861-1865
- Folder 12: "Battle of Shiloh" / General Thomas Jordan, Southern Historical Society Papers, undated
- Covers 1862 battle.
- Folder 13: Tributes to Robert E. Lee after his death, 1870 October
- Folder 14: Extract from Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, pages 253-266, 1886
- Covers 1863.
- Folder 15: "Rodes' Brigade at Seven Pines" / Robert E. Park, undated
- Covers 1862 May.
- Folder 16: "Who Is Responsible for the Destruction of the City of Columbia, South Carolina on the Night of 17th February 1865?" / Dr. Edward Sill, The Land We Love, Volume IV, Number 5, 1868 March
- Folder 17: Fortification and Siege of Port Hudson - (Documents) compiled by the Association of Defenders of Port Hudson; M.J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary" / Association of Defenders of Port Hudson, Southern Historical Society Papers, undated
- Covers 1863.
- Folder 18: "Sketch of the 1st Kentucky Brigade"
- Folder 19: The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia, Buffalo, New York, 1886
- Folder 20: Civil War articles, undated
- Items in fragments.
- Folder 21: "The Primary Surgery of General Sherman's Campaigns" / Dr. E. Andrews and Dr. J.M. Woodworth, undated
Source unknown.
Fragment.
- Folder 22: "Amputation, Dis-articulation and Resection Statistics of the Confederate States Army", undated
Source unknown.
Fragment.
- Folder 23: Two articles from one journal covering 1861-1865: "Traumatic Gangrene [in the Western Armies of the Confederate States]" / W.C. Cavanaugh; "A Case of Traumatic Tetanus Recovery" / Dr. B.W. Avent, 1866 April
- Folder 24: "Compound Fractures of the Thigh from Gun Shots", undated
- Statistics from Chimborazo and other Confederate hospitals.
- Folder 25: An Illustrated System of Bandaging...Printed by Order of Surgeon-General, Confederate States of America Army, Medical Department, Richmond, 1864
- Autographed by Marcus J. Wright.
- Folder 26: Report of Two Cases Of Ligature of the Subclavian Artery" / Dr. William H. Doughty, 1866 July
- Covers 1863.
- Folder 27: "A Contribution to the History of the Hip-Joint Operations Performed During the Late Civil War..." / Dr. Paul F. Eve, 1867
- Extract from Transactions of the American Medical Association. Philadelphia.
- Folder 28: Whisky and Tobacco: Their Effects upon Soldiers and Others / Paul F. Eve, Nashville, 1866
- Folder 29: "Contributions Relating to the Causation and Prevention of Disease and to Camp Diseases; together with a Report of the Diseases, et cetera, among the Prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia" / United States Sanitary Commission, New York, 1867
- One Xerox copy fragment from Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion.
- Folder 30: "Spurious Vaccination in the Confederate States Army" / Dr. J.T. Gilmore, undated
- Folder 31: Observations Upon the Statistics of Chimborazo Hospital... / Dr. S.E. Habersham, Nashville, 1866
- Folder 32: "Report on Spurious Vaccination in the Confederate Army" / Dr. S.E. Habersham, 1866 July-August
- Extract from Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 23, Number 1.
- Folder 33: Two reviews from one journal, 1865
- Review of Dr. Frank H. Hamilton's, A Treatise on Military Surgery and Hygiene (New York, 1865). Review of Circular Number 6, War Department, Surgeon General's Office, Washington, Philadelphia, 1865 November 1 (Philadelphia, 1865).
- Folder 34: "Clinical Notes of Cases Treated in Different Hospitals of the Late Confederate States" / Dr. James M. Holloway, undated
- Fragment. Covers 1864.
- Folder 35: "Excision and Resection of the Bones and Joints of the Upper Extremity" / Dr. D.D. Sanders, undated
- Covers 1864-1865.
- Folder 36: "Remarkable Case of Gun-Shot Wound of the Bladder..." / Dr. Charles Terry, 1866 September
- The Richmond Medical Journal, Volume II, Number 3. Covers 1864-1865.
- Folder 1: "Sketch of Governor Allen of Louisiana", undated
Browse by Box:
[Box 1: Correspondence, 1849 July-1858 February],
[Box 2: Correspondence, 1858 March-1859 July],
[Box 3: Correspondence, 1859 August-1861 June],
[Box 4: Correspondence, 1861 July-1862 November],
[Box 5: Correspondence, 1862 December-1864 August],
[Box 6: Correspondence, 1864 September-1866 April],
[Box 7: Correspondence, 1866 May-December],
[Box 8: Correspondence, 1867 January-1868 May],
[Box 9: Correspondence, 1868 June-October],
[Box 10: Correspondence, 1868 November-December],
[Box 11: Correspondence, 1869-1870],
[Box 12: Correspondence, 1871-1876 May],
[Box 13: Correspondence, 1876 June-1880],
[Box 14: Correspondence, 1881-1889],
[Box 15: Correspondence, 1890],
[Box 16: Correspondence, 1891-1893],
[Box 17: Correspondence, 1894-1895],
[Box 18: Correspondence, 1896-1899],
[Box 19: Correspondence, 1900 and undated],
[Box 20: Civil War military reports and rosters],
[Box 21: Civil War medical reports and rosters],
[Box 22: Civil War medical observations and articles by Joseph Jones and others and scrapbooks],
[Box 23: Civil War Andersonville Prison],
[Box 24: Civil War accounts of battles, armies, et cetera],
[Box 25: Articles by Joseph Jones and others; University of Nashville Medical Department; and Tulane University Medical Department],
[Box 26: Slavery and general medical materials],
[Box 27: United Confederate Veterans (UCV) and other papers],
[Box 28: Printed articles, and other materials about Joseph Jones],
[Box 29: Printed articles written by Joseph Jones],
[Box 30: Printed Civil War military reports],
[Box 31: Printed Civil War personal accounts, reminiscences, and biographical sketches, and Civil War medical material],
[Box 32: Printed Civil war articles and pamphlets, United Confederate Veterans articles and pamphlets],
[Box 33: Printed medical articles and pamphlets; pamphlets pertaining to medical colleges, education, et cetera; issues of medical journals],
[Box 34: Printed non-Joseph Jones, non-medical, and non-Civil War material],
[Box 35: Civil War newspaper clippings],
[Box 36: Newspaper clippings: other],
[Box 37: Other materials: Maps, photographs, and other items],
[Box 38: Printed blank forms],
[Box 39: Bound volumes, volumes 1-6],
[Box 40: Bound volumes, volumes 7-9],
[Box 41: Bound volumes, volumes 10-12],
[Box 42: Bound volumes, volumes 13-17],
[Box 43: Bound volumes, volumes 18, 19, and 21],
[Box 44: Bound volumes, volume 20],
[Box 45: Bound volumes, volumes 22-24],
[Box 46: Bound volumes, volume 25-28],
[Volume 29: General outline of the history of yellow fever / by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Volume 30: Comparative pathology of malarial and yellow fevers / by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Volume 31: Historical essays on yellow fever / by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 46A: Bound volumes, volumes 32A-33],
[Volume 34: Notebook / Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 46B: Bound volumes, volumes 35 and 38],
[Volume 36: Essays on components of the universe, state of the solar system, conservation of force, origin of life, relations of muscular and nervous forces, observations on albinism in the Negro / compiled by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 47: Bound volumes, volumes 37, 39 and 40],
[Box 47A: Bound volumes, volumes 41-43],
[Box 48: Bound volumes, volumes 44-46],
[Volume 47: Reports on typhoid fever in the Confederate States Army / compiled by Joseph Jones, circa 1860-1863],
[Box 49: Bound volumes, volumes 48-49],
[[information restricted]],
[Box 50: Bound volumes, volumes 51 and 53],
[Volume 52: Investigations of diseases / compiled by Joseph Jones, 1891],
[Box 50A: Bound volumes, volume 54 and 60],
[Volume 55: Investigations upon the nature, causes, and treatment of hospital gangrene as it prevailed in the Confederate Armies / compiled by Joseph Jones, 1861-1865],
[Box 51: Bound volumes, volumes 56-59],
[Volume 61: Investigations on the geographical distribution, causes, nature, relations, and treatment of various diseases, 1855-1875 / by Joseph Jones, Volume II, undated],
[Box 52: Bound volumes, volumes 62, 64-65],
[Volume 63: Investigations and explorations among the military, monumental and organic remains of the ancient [Chaovanons] / by Joseph Jones, 1873],
[Box 53: Bound volumes, volumes 66-68],
[Volume 69: Other clippings / collected by Joseph Jones, undated],
[Box 54: Bound volumes, volumes 70-71],
[Box 55: Bound volumes, volumes 72-73],
[Box 56: Bound volumes, volumes 74-77 and 79],
[Volume 78: Birds / Spencer F. Baird, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1858],
[Oversize folder 1: Diploma],
[Oversize folder 2: Medical and Surgical Memoirs manuscript notes],
[Oversize folder 3: "The conduct of the enemy"],
[Oversize folder 4: Meningitis reports],
[Oversize folder 5: Poisons on the Nervous System],
[Oversize folder 6: Observations upon the causes],
[Oversize folder 7: Experiment illustrations],
[Oversize folder 8: Clippings],
[All]
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